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...just like that, the one-goal shocker seemed to erase the pain of the last month's six straight shutout losses and propel the squad into the finest of moods at the most opportune of times...
...together; the only cushion between these bones is two thin bands of cartilaginous tissue called menisci. Unlike the shoulder and hip joints, which are buried under layers of muscle, the knee is protected only by the kneecap and a thin layer of tissue. The knee bears great weights, helps propel and stop the body and acts as a shock absorber-and that is just normal wear. Many sports put added strain on the joint. The worst: football, basketball, skiing, soccer, weight lifting and wrestling. And a runner, says Dr. James Hill, co-director of sports medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
...goes through more drastic mood changes than Sybil; it has sold more than $100 million worth of tickets this summer. Buckaroo Banzai, then, is simply extending the trend of data overload. Still, its creators, Earl Mac Rauch (New York, New York) and W.D. Richter (who wrote Slither and Brubaker), propel their film with such pace and farfetched style that anyone without Ph.D.s in astrophysics and pop culture is likely to get lost in the ganglion of story strands. One wonders if the movie is too ambitious, facetious and hip for its own box-office good...
Silverblatt's feeling came from a dollar that this summer has hit all-time highs against nine foreign currencies, including the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira. The surge has helped to propel American tourists abroad in ever growing numbers. Applicants at the 13 U.S. passport agencies have had to wait up to eight hours this summer just to reach the counter, and clerks have been working six-day weeks. The frantic pace should outstrip last year's, when U.S. travelers made a record 25.3 million trips abroad...
...under his command, was massacred near Montana's Little Bighorn River. The secrets of his last stand against more than 2,500 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors were buried with him. There were no white survivors to tell the tale, but plenty of folks back East were ready to propel Custer directly into legend as a straight-shooting hero. The years have only served to embellish the myths and mysteries...